Abstract: Schoof's algorithm computes the number of points on an elliptic curve defined over a finite field . Schoof determines modulo small primes using the characteristic equation of the Frobenius of and polynomials of degree . With the works of Elkies and Atkin, we have just to compute, when is a ``good" prime, an eigenvalue of the Frobenius using polynomials of degree . In this article, we compute the complexity of Müller's algorithm, which is the best known method for determining one eigenvalue and we improve the final step in some cases. Finally, when is ``bad", we describe how to have polynomials of small degree and how to perform computations, in Schoof's algorithm, on -values only.